Once again the title of this paper from 2014 nails zionists:

“Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv: Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude”

(its not actually that relevant in this case, buuuut: zionists and homophobia name a more iconic duo)

they missed #4

Hasbara: Anyone who even says the word genocide is Hamas

CW: transphobia, pinkwashing

taking this opportunity to propagate this paper: “Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv: Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude”

I went digging for where this had been posted before but it turns out it was just the mega: https://hexbear.net/comment/4668021

I tend to agree with @the_itsb in being exceedingly skeptical of the takeaways and premise here

Also this guy insists Chunka Luta are nazis on twitter iirc which is also deeply sus behavior without any evidence

maybe revolution is not just around the corner, maybe its another thousand years of worsening barbarism, idk, but being like “hmm yes maybe our best chance is to let the corporations win and devolve into a pure monopoly and then take over that monopoly at some nebulous point in the future” is just counter fucking productive. We do have power to affect the world even if we can’t topple global capitalism in the near term and anyone encouraging longtermism adjacent, or doomer adjacent ideas like this is worse than the most naive “any day now capitalism will fall” baby socialist

his answer is literally “marxism will let me be self righteously satisfied with my understanding of the world and hopeful for the distant future while I do nothing (or maybe participate in an uprising, as long as its rooted in the understanding it will change nothing)”

like come on. if you are that doom brained why are you even a socialist?

He could have written a more persuasive version of this article if he like, advocated for doing anything despite his feeling that the odds are long, but he seems happy to concede that nothing need be done because the conditions aren’t right. when the conditions become right, people like this will be out in the cold because they havent been fighting and organizing in preparation

working gif link: https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/0ed40bfc-13ad-4785-8b9f-93a08ce19e20.gif

idk why pictrs ruins them by forcing webp. or why animated webp arent working, I think thats a thing

imagine being able to see downvotes

Couldn’t be me, I only see upbears

*sponsoring a genocide, not just witnessing, not even close

*sponsoring a genocide, not witnessing

I thought this was gonna be about the israeli soldier getting domed with a rock but that works too

c/languagelearning

imma be honest I have a hard time giving a shit whether or not some guy I’ve never read misinterpreted marx or not.

What’s obvious to me is that in the near term a lot needs to change about production everywhere and allocation of resources in the global north especially, if we are to slow down/reverse climate change and survive it. Does this imply a permanent limit on production or population? No. But like, it might be a while before we get this shit under control, if we ever do.

In the meantime, reallocating resources does not have to come with a loss of quality of life. If I never flew on a plane again but I had enough time off of work to take a train instead, that would be a net increase in quality of life. If instead of the primary way of getting around for 95% of americans being a car, it was public transit, that would be an improvement, not a decline in QoL. The list goes on. Living slower (in some respects), simpler, less wasteful lives, is not an inherent regression in society, more production isn’t inherently better when the things being produced and the process of production are both fucked and making people’s lives worse.

I’m feeling 50% chance it’s shit 50% chance just because its a normal shitty company and doesn’t work

edit: even natopedia has this very conspicuous

So it kinda feels like theres not much evidence for its effectiveness and I bet the example data is a lot better for some languages than others…

I was at work and didn’t quite read that far, thanks for finding the relevant bit

Ah yes, the classic family business: sex toy shop

idk https://www.forensicscijournal.com/articles/jfsr-aid1012.php

The relevant question isn’t “did he break the law”, but “did NK mistreat him, or neglect him in custody, causing his illness”? I haven’t seen any evidence they caused his illness through mistreatment, and it’d be pretty much impossible to prove so long after the fact if they did, unless said mistreatment involved broken bones or something. But what is much more believable is him being assaulted, perhaps strangled, by other prisoners upon incarceration, which would explain the “lack of oxygen to the brain” that the coroners report mentioned.

The DPRK authorities have some responsibility, if they are going to imprison him, to make sure that doesn’t happen, IMO. It would fall under neglect. I mean either way he’s no martyr, I certainly don’t condemn the DPRK for it, but I think it’s fair to say they could have handled it better. If this were one case out of dozens, or hundreds, of americans getting arrested in the DPRK, and one guy happens to get sick and go into a coma in custody, I’d be happy to accept it was coincidence or just stress, but it’s not a common occurrence for an american to go to prison there, and americans are (rightly) hated there, so it’s sorta hard to accept a healthy US college student just abruptly went into a vegetative coma with no acute cause besides stress when there are so many other possibilities that seem much more likely and simple.

understandable, but unnecessary! Thanks for the edit

btw, if you make this an image post, rather than a text post with an image from some rando site embedded in the text box, then people on hexbear.net could actually see it

Or even leave it as an embed, just upload it to lemmy rather than linking to an external site.

Reason being: we block unknown image hosts due to security and moderation concerns (embedded images can be used to gather the IPs of our users and have been used to post NSFL shock images before)